Sentences with phrase «few microseconds»

Physicists at Brookhaven National Laboratory on Long Island in New York announced in April that they had re-created the searing - hot mix of exotic particles that filled the universe during the first few microseconds after the Big Bang.

According to Weinberg (1977 p. 5), a slightly different sequence of events in the first few microseconds of the «big bang» would have resulted in a universe of all helium and no hydrogen.

Understanding what happened in the first few microseconds is crucial to knowing how the universe came to look and behave as it does today.

Their results showed that a typical raindrop — roughly 2 millimetres wide and travelling at a few metres per second — compresses air in front of it a few microseconds before hitting a solid surface.

Among its major discoveries is a finding that primordial quarks and gluons may have behaved like a perfect, frictionless liquid a few microseconds after the Big Bang.

According to their findings, elements heavier than any yet createdmight have conformations that are especially stable — suggesting that if we can ever make atoms that big, they might stick around for longer than a few microseconds.

Subtracting known influences and comparing their results with satellite records of Earth's day length, they found that elevated temperatures in the pool during El Niño years correlated with days that were a few microseconds longer than in other years.

In 1979, Kemp found that a few microseconds after sound enters a healthy ear, the same sound — amplified up to 10 times — can be detected emanating from the ear.

To replicate the traumatic effects on vascular tissue from an improvised explosive device, Parker and his team used a high - speed motor to stretch the elastic substrate by one - fifth of an inch in just a few microseconds, then release it.

Sure enough, their scintillation detector started scintillating about twice as fast within a few microseconds of the strongest sonoluminescent flashes.

The rare occurrence of two magic numbers — in both protons and neutrons — means that even such a lopsided nucleus as nickel - 48 could hold itself together for a few microseconds.

«There are models that predict that [nickel - 48] has such a short lifetime that we should not have been able to see it, and other models agree with our observations because they predict that it lives at least a few microseconds.»

The blast will only last a few microseconds.

Astronomers spotted variations of just a few microseconds in the timing of these pulses, revealing that at least two small planets tug the pulsar back and forth as they orbit.

«Each one lived for only a few microseconds before collisions with other particles tore it apart.

The QGP is an extreme state of matter comprising deconfined quarks and gluons (partons) that exists only at temperatures above approximately 160 MeV, a condition met for last time a few microseconds after the Big Bang, or at baryon densities five times higher than normal nuclear densities, speculated to exist inside the core of neutron stars.

It was a glancing blow; a few microseconds later, it might have been much worse.

Right off, Dave seemed special, a bug - eyed hummingbird of a dog, leaping up stairs and skittering around on feet that never seemed to touch the ground for more than a few microseconds.

There are a few microsecond - long animation excesses, perhaps, such as when exiting from the list of open apps back to the home screen, but otherwise it's a slick, flagship - like operation.

Michael and Andrea were delighted... and then I asked them if they minded if I would see if I could make them more money... after a few microseconds, they said yes.